Conflict, trauma and the media : a collection of essays / edited by Guy Hodgson.

"Conflict in all its guises is usually at the centre of news and whenever wars, natural disasters or divisions erupt, the media are there to report, record and commemorate. This collection of essays explores the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic uphea...

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Other Authors: Hodgson, Guy (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Guy Hodgson
  • Banal phenomenologies of violence: media work cultures and audience engagement with distant trauma / Tim Markham
  • The spectacle of a hunger strike: Guantanamo 2013 / Anita Howarth
  • The tradition of hijacking: an artistic look at the Japanese Red Army / Valeria Mancinelli
  • Trauma reporting and its impact on journalists: a case study of leading Chinese news outlets / Zhen Troy Chen
  • Perceptions of foreign conflict: reporting of the war in Gaza in 2014 / Emma Heywood
  • "It makes me spit": the public and newspaper reaction to the UK government's threat to suppress the Daily Mirror in 1942 / Guy Hodgson
  • Negotiating identity politics via networked communication: a case study of the Welsh speaking population in Patagonia, Argentina / Simon Gwyn Roberts
  • A voice for peace: young people in Northern Ireland learn through journalism / Fiona Wyton and David Baines.